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1 Using The Serious Illness Conversation Guide Anna C Beck, MD Associate Professor Director, Supportive Oncology & Survivorship Huntsman Cancer Institute

2 Objectives Attitudes Reflect on the impact of communication on patient care Knowledge Describe the benefits of serious illness conversations for patients, families, and clinicians Identify the elements of the Serious Illness Conversation Guide Skills Practice using the Serious Illness Conversation Guide

3 REFLECTION Reflection

4 Why the Serious Illness Conversation Guide (SICG)?

5 N BW YORK T1 M ES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE CHECKLIST MANIFESTO Atul Gavvande Being Mortal Medicine and What Matters in the End

6 Gap between what patients want and what they get Patients with serious illness have priorities besides living longer. Symptom management and quality of life Sense of control and completion Strengthening relationships Singer JAMA 1999; Steinhauser JAMA 2000; Heyland Palliative Medicine 2015

7 Gap between what patients want and what they get Most people want to be at home and prefer comfort-focused care at the end of life, but that is often not the reality. 86% Medicare beneficiaries want to spend final days at home Barnato % die in an acute care hospital Teno JAMA 2013; Silveira NEJM % are hospitalized in the last 90 days Teno JM JAMA % receive intensive care in the last 30 days Teno JM JAMA 2013 Many experience care transitions and very short hospice stays Teno JM JAMA 2013

8 What patients get often harms them and their families Aggressive care for patients with advanced illness is often harmful: For patients: Lower quality of life Greater physical and psychological distress Wright, AA JAMA 2008; Mack JCO 2010 For caregivers: More major depression Lower satisfaction Wright, AA JAMA 2008; Teno JM JAMA 2004

9 Conversations are too little, too late, and not great Multiple studies show patients with serious medical illnesses do not discuss EOL preferences, or first discuss them only in the last days to month of life Wright 2008, Dow 2010, Halpern 2011 Many conversations fail to address key elements of quality discussions, especially prognosis

10 Clinicians and the medical system are important barriers to conversations and care planning Clinicians lack communication competencies, training and confidence Baile Cancer 1999; Sullivan JGIM 2003; Buss Cancer 2011 Culture of medicine does not value key elements of effective care: Accepts late or non-existent conversations o Low priority o No accountability Tolerates poor end-of-life care Focuses on avoidance of emotions; these are inherently emotionallyintense discussions Clinicians feel they do not have enough time Bottom line: Multiple factors make good conversations difficult.

11 How to bridge the gap between what patients want and what they get? Ask patients about their values and priorities.

12 Conversations are a key component of the effectiveness of palliative care interventions Earlier conversations about patient goals and priorities for living with serious illness are associated with: Enhanced goal-concordant care Mack JCO 2010 Improved quality of life Reduced suffering Better patient and family coping Higher patient satisfaction Detering BMJ 2010 Less non-beneficial care and costs Wright 2008, Zhang 2009

13 How do we do this? SICG SICG Bhang et al JPM 2013

14 These are hard conversations to have!

15 Tools that help N!ME: This can be a little scary to talk about; UNDERST!ND: It s normal to feel this way; RESPECT: You have worked hard to deal with your illness; SUPPORT: You are not alone; EXPLORE: Help me understand what you mean when you say< Tell me more< I m hearing that you are hoping for< I hope;;;;and I worry that;;; Ask permission as you move through the conversation Avoid rabbit holes Drop the rope! Talk less than 50% of the time Make suggestions!

16 Talking about prognosis Never predict with certainty! The past predicts the future Think about your triggers The Surprise question Be prepared for uncertainty For today s purpose, can we assume that your time is short? Christakis, BMJ 2000

17 Summing it up: the know-do gap for serious illness conversations Patients with serious illness have priorities besides living longer. To deliver the kind of care patients want during this critical time, we first have to ask about their values and priorities. Earlier clinical conversations about values and goals can lead to improved quality of life, reduced suffering, better patient and family coping, and less non-beneficial care and costs. But these conversations happen too little, too late, and they re not great.

18 Why the Serious Illness Conversation Guide?..emotionally intense conversations Checklists work! Is it all there? You can get paid now!

19 CMS reimbursement for Advance Care Planning Two new codes ACP 30 minutes $ ACP additional 30 minutes $74.88 Documentation? Time spent on the conversation No outcomes Who can do this? MD, APC, qualified auxiliary provider under direct supervision of a provider

20 Implementing a change:!tul s checklist 1. Learn how to have the conversation 2. Identify patients at risk what will your triggers be? 3. Start talking to patients and families 4. Use a checklist or conversation guide 5. Document critical information in the EMR 6. Measure your performance

21 Serious Illness Conversation Guide

22 Serious Illness Care Program Materials Clinician Conversation Guide (checklist) Reference Guide Patient Family Communication Guide Conversation Guide Reference Strategies Learning tool Guide patient-family conversation (mirrors clinician guide)

23 The Serious Illness Guide in Action

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